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146 available newspaper. All editorials violently accuse Germany. I feel much depressed - headache all day. Finally took small car up to Riverside drive where the war fleet is at anchor. [[strikethrough]] Spent [[/strikethrough]] Evening whole family went to movies in Yonkers. May 9. 1915. (Sunday) Nice bright sunny day Motored to New York to fetch Dr. [[red underline]] Jacques Loeb, [[/red underline]] his wife and daughter. Took them around parks and Riverdale. [[vertical red line in left margin highlights the following section]] Loeb had never seen anything of this and seemed astonished at it all. Showed him happy children, happy workmen, and women at play at Park. [[red underline]] Real practical democracy. [[/red underline]] [[/vertical red line in left margin]] Makes much the impression of the man who knows little outside of what he learns in his laboratory [[end page]] [[start page]] 147 or reads in books. Victim of onesided, lopsided european education. Nevertheless he has very broad views on many subjects. For instance he is [[red underline]] wholeheartedly against war. [[/red underline]] Altho' born in Austria is antigerman now. Says has written to [[red underline]] Ostwald [[/red underline]] he can no longer correspond with him on account of the latters unwarranted ideas. [[red underline]] Says Svante Arhenius [[/red underline]] is one of the very few who keeps his balance. Arhenius [[red underline]] has protested together with a [[/red underline]] group of Swedish scientist against barbarous warfare as shown by Lusitania. Drove them all home at evening after supper. [[ink underline]] May 10. [[ink underline]] [[red underline]] Celine [[/red underline]] [[strikethrough]] and [[/strikethrough]] went with me to Perth Amboy in big car. [[strikethrough]] Beautiful [[/strikethrough]] after lunch: - Beautiful Spring day. Over Staten Island. [[red underline]] Factory very busy [[/red underline]] except
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Svante Arrhenius was a Swedish scientist, one of the founders of the science of physical chemistry.
